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Dec 2018
17m 9s

Starting from zero

McKinsey Strategy & Corporate Finance
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   Listen to the podcast (duration: 16:18) >  Zero-based budgeting is an old financial management approach that is experiencing a resurgence. But why this -- and why now? McKinsey’s Wigbert Bohm, an expert in the field, helps us understand how digitization has given new life to ZBB, the benefits it offers, and how to implement it in both large and small organizations.

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